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Pleasure Quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- The limits of pleasures are as yet neither known nor fixed, and we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of…
- If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk…
- Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
- The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
- The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our…
- The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures,…
- A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the pleasure there would…
- Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts…
More Pleasure Quotes
- The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
- Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac